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Ibn Khaldun

by Yves Lacoste
A sympathetic yet incisive study of the great North African polymath.
1 post
Record of a Life

by Georg Lukács
A compelling tribute to a remarkable man, formed from interviews near the end of an eventful life.
5 posts
Antonio Gramsci

by Giuseppe Fiori
“A model of political biography.”—Guardian
6 posts
Chomsky’s Politics

by Milan Rai
A wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of Chomsky’s life and output.

Michel Foucault

by Rudi Visker
A lucid and elegant survey of Foucault's corpus, as well as a major intervention in the debate over the nature of Foucault's work.
2 posts
Viramma

by Viramma

An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.

2 posts
Walter Benjamin

by Momme Brodersen

“The definitive biography.”—Observer

10 posts
Without Guarantees

by Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, et al.

A wide range of academics present essays that build upon Stuart Hall’s contributions to scholarship.

13 posts

Lennon Remembers

by Jann S. Wenner
The complete and uncensored 1970 Rolling Stone interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
1 post
Pinochet and Me

by Marc Cooper
“Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty
4 posts
The Enemy

by Gopal Balakrishnan

“A book which everyone interested in modern political theory should read.”—Michael Mann

8 posts
Mother Millett

by Kate Millett

A poignant memoir of loss and reestablishment.

1 post

Family Secrets

by Annette Kuhn
“Reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies.”—Meaghan Morris
3 posts
Irish on the Inside

by Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism.
Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife

by Juan Goytisolo
This masterful autobiography broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty.
1 post
The Prophet Armed

by Isaac Deutscher

This first volume of the trilogy traces Trotsky’s political development.

1 post

The Prophet Outcast

by Isaac Deutscher

This third volume of the trilogy is a self-contained narrative of Trotsky's years in exile and of his murder in Mexico in 1940.

1 post
The Prophet Unarmed

by Isaac Deutscher

This second volume of the trilogy is a self-contained account of the great struggle between Stalin and Trotsky that followed the end of the civil war in Russia in 1921 and the death of Lenin.

1 post
Edward Said

by Abdirahman A. Hussein
The only intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, published on the first anniversary of Said’s death.
4 posts
Muhammad

by Eliot Weinberger
A luminous portrait of the Prophet, in the Islamic tradition.

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